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Colloidal gold techniques provide cellular markers (gold particles) that are spherical and extremely electron-dense (Fig. 151). One of the chief advantages of colloidal gold techniques is that the gold particles cannot be confused with any other cellular constituents, unlike the products of previously discussed ferritin and peroxidase/DAB/osmium staining procedures.
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Dykstra, M.J., Reuss, L.E. (2003). Techniques. In: Biological Electron Microscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9244-4_12
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